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Search For Survivors After Destructive Quake

 

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think i'm Coy Wire happy to be with you

today and hope you had an awesome

weekend now it is Monday March 31st and

we do start with some heavy news today

rescuers are still finding survivors in

the ruins of buildings in the wake of a

7.7 magnitude earthquake that hit

Myanmar on Friday 1,700 people are

confirmed dead but it could take weeks

before we get a full picture of the

devastation the death toll continues to

rise as rescue crews are racing to free

thousands of people who are feared to be

trapped in the rubble especially in

Myanmar's second largest city Mandalay

this is the largest earthquake Myanmar

has seen in more than a century myanmar

one of Asia's poorest nations has

largely been shut off from the world by

its military government during four

years of civil war but now the world is

rushing to help

International aid has

reached the most devastated parts of the

country but aid groups say they are

still facing major shortages of medical

supplies this earthquake was so powerful

that its effects were seen and felt

hundreds of miles away including in

places like Bangkok the capital of

Thailand our Will Ripley has more for us

on this devastating news

 

one of many devastating scenes across

the crippled city of Mandalay damage

stretches across entire neighborhoods

homes and historic buildings reduced to

rubble buddhist monasteries places of

peace and reflection now piles of debris

geologists say the massive 7.7

earthquake had the energy of hundreds of

atomic bombs myanmar's worst quake in

more than a century hitting right during

Friday prayers many mosques collapsed

trapping Muslim worshippers inside

after several years of brutal civil war

and largely self-imposed isolation the

 

self-imposed [͵sɛlfɪmˋpozd] adj. 自己强加的；自愿接受的

 

leader of Myanmar's military junta

 

junta [ˋhʊntə] n. 军人集团；执政团；团体

 

surveyed the devastation making a rare

plea for international aid now slowly

beginning to arrive from China Russia

India other countries have also pledged

support for this impoverished nation

help cannot come quickly enough the 7.7

magnitude earthquake and its powerful

aftershocks likely leaving parts of the

nation uninhabitable

with severe damage,hundreds of miles

from the epicenter including in

Thailand's capital city of Bangkok

skyscrapers swaying so violently rooftop

pools briefly became

waterfalls and this 30-story high-rise

under construction near a popular

weekend market collapsed without warning

likely trapping dozens inside here in

Bangkok heavy machinery is now sifting

through the rubble of that collapsed

skyscraper they do have the resources

and the manpower for a massive disaster

response but with each passing hour of

not finding anyone alive in all that

rubble hope for the families is fading

search and rescue teams are doing

everything they can sniffer dogs picking

up possible signs of life drone footage

captures the scale of the collapse a

tangled mass of steel and concrete where

rescuers continued searching all day

Saturday

10sec trivia which company holds the

record for largest monetary fine in a

federal food safety case

 

Chipotle

Peanut Corporation of America

ConAgra

Family Dollar

 

answer is Family Dollar stores

each of these companies have violated

product food safety standards but Family

Dollar faced a record fine of 41.6

million last year after selling items

that were stocked in a rat-infested

 

infest [ɪnˋfɛst] v. 大批出沒於；侵擾；騷擾

 

warehouse

messy stores high prices and

overexpansion have plagued the retail

chain Family Dollar according to

analysts and those are just some of the

factors that likely led to its sale at a

devastating loss dollar Tree purchased

Family Dollar back in 2015 for $9

billion but it's now offloading the

 

offload  [ˋɑflod] v. 卸去（累赘）;把（不想要的东西）转移（给别人）

 

discount brand for 1 billion pending

 

pending  [ˋpɛndɪŋ]   悬而未决的；未定的；待定的；迫近的

 

regulatory approval that's expected to

clear next quarter family Dollar has

around 8,000 stores in the United States

predominantly in cities with product

prices that typically range from$1 to10

dollars and a lot of families depend on

the store to help them stay within

budget but in recent years inflation

increased family dollars operating costs

squeezed its lower income customers and

now tariffs on imported goods imposed by

President Donald Trump's administration

have further put pressure on dollar

stores our Vanessa Yavich took to the

streets to ask some customers about the

role Family Dollar plays in their lives

and find out how store closings or price

hikes might affect them

 

this is the most

affordable place you can find a lot of

things here and it's pretty cheap i'm

here at a Family Dollar in New Jersey

talking to people about the role that

this store plays in their lives family

Dollar is being sold to two private

equity companies as the brand struggles

last year it announced plans to close

more than 900 stores

 

how important is

this family dollar to this community i

think it's very important really cuz

there's a lot of people that come here

it's very convenient and it's very

important that we have this otherwise

you know we would have to go very far

and I love it here it's just like family

prices are good uh the products are good

the shoppers we spoke to agree prices

are up across the board but here at

Family Dollar it's still the most

affordable option in town there's the

word dollar in the name can you get

something for a dollar here these days

sometimes yes sometimes yes it's gotten

more expensive than when I first started

coming here and everything has gotten

very very pricey you know have you

noticed in recent years prices going up

at all not really no not at Family

Dollar no overall everything has

increased not that much not as fast as

uh some of the other stores do you find

that in recent years you've had to

tighten your budget watch prices more

absolutely absolutely well on on what

particular things food like eggs i say

I'm not eating eggs no more they're too

too

expensive i'm not paying $13, 12 for a

carton of eggs there's a supermarket u

less than a half a block away and their

price is eggs

$15 that's too much i think everybody

took a price height but these particular

dollar-like stores they they they

basically they represent the lesser side

of the market and and they're very

they're not that expensive at all always

get a deal at Family Dollar always get a

deal here some people charge you a lot

for a high price item in some of the

bigger stores you can come here and find

that same item for half price what

would it mean if this store did not

exist in this community well for a

person such as myself I would have to go

to another supermarket that compare the

prices but I think this this store here

is very good for the community it's not

really clear what the future of Family

Dollar is but more store closures and

price hikes could be possible

 

today's story getting a 10 out

of 10 the flower that's so much more

than just a flower sakura the Japanese

word for cherry blossom the trees pop

with their pink or white flowers right

around this time each spring and an

estimated 63 million people travel to

and within Japan to witness it they

represent renewal and the fleeting

 

fleeting [ˋflitɪŋ] adj. 转瞬间的；短暂的

 

nature of life in Japanese culture and

here in the United States in Washington

DC did you know you can get arrested for

removing a blossom or branch because

it's considered vandalism of federal

 

vandalism [ˋvændlɪzəm] n. 故意破坏公物（或文化、艺术）的行为

 

property our AllieChichar has more

japan's cherry blossoms are once again

in bloom a fleeting fairyland lasting

only about two weeks uniting locals and

visitors in Tokyo under a canopy of pink

and white we were excited we had heard

that it was a big event everybody comes

out has a picnic,spends the day and I

love being around a lot of people and

seeing everybody out just having a

wonderful time together the temperature

sensitive buds flowered 5 days earlier

than last year according to the Japan

Meteorological Agency an earlier season

that's raised some concerns in recent

years about the potential impact climate

change could have on the treasured trees

but some residents in Tokyo say the

weather has been unusual lately the

recent temperatures changed quite a lot

and my body can't adjust to it i think

the cherry blossoms probably can't keep

up with the changes either almost in

sync with the cherry blossoms in Japan

Washington DC is also pretty and pink

the US National Park Service declaring

peak bloom on Friday the trees were

gifts from Japan first arriving in

Washington in 1912 last year Japan

announced a new gift of 250 more trees

to the US once again sharing the joy

that people both in Tokyo and Washington

try to enjoy as long as it lasts

 

allright smell the flowers cool the soup

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